Lainaus Rolf Ahrenberg <rahrenbe at cc.hut.fi>:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006, Petri Helin wrote:
>> > I tried the version 0.02 and although it seems to be working fine, I have
>> > couple of questions. First of all, there are no indication in the main menu
>> > display about a recording activity, if the recording was started by a
> timer.
>> IMHO, there's no need to show background recording activity while
> surfing in menus, so I haven't implemented such a feature. I don't want
> my screen filled up with all the bells and whistles that add no real
> value.
>
I, on the contrary, do like to see if the system is recording, and if it is,
what is it recording. But it is your soppalusikka, so I won't fight about it ;)
> Sure, I've been thinking about implementing some parts of femon into
> soppalusikka, but it would generate some drawbacks like slowing down
> channel zapping etc. You can always bind the femon plugin to some user
> defined key and you'll get the aspect ratios as easily as pressing the
> ok to bring up the default channel info.
Starting the femon plugin causes always a few seconds gap during which the
screen turns black. So no thank you.
>> Why you'd want the see the bitrates/aspect ratios/.. everytime you'll
> open the channel info? Just to verify that your visual cortex is still
> in sync with the video stream? ;)
>
Why would I need any of the other provided bits of information either? Let's say
I just like information :)
> If you absolutely need this kind of information, there's a video status
> feature in skinelchi plugin (but for FF cards only?).
>
I was hoping that this would be a slighter solution than the text2skin +
enElchi-skin which I am currently using (although I had to add the current
recordings bar to the main menu myself). So I will just continue with that one then.